484 



NOCTTJIDjE. 



c5. Fore wing with tlie orbicular obsolete. 

 a^. Fore wing with dentate subterniinal 

 line witli short black streak before it 



in discal fold subchali/haa. 



b'^. Fore wing witliout snbterminal line 



or streak in discal fold gorilla. 



8310. Phytometra chalcytes. 



Nociua chalcytes, Esp. Sclimett. iv. p. 447, pi. 141. f. 3 (1789); Mill. 



Icones, i. pi. 5. ff. 1-4 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238. 

 l^octua, qucBstionis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 81 (1794). 

 Noctua bcngalensis, Eossi, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 22, pi. 3. f. P (1794). 

 Noctua chalcytis, Hilbn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 276 (1802); Err. Neue 



Beitr. pi. 47. f. 2. 

 Flusia eriosoma, Doubl. DiefFenbach's New Zealand, ii. p. 285 (1843) ; 



Hinpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 569. 

 Flusia verticillata, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 344 (1852); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. 



p. 70, pi. 152. f. 6. 

 Phisia Integra, Wlk. xii. 931 (1857). 

 Flusia adjuncta, Wlk. xxsiii. 810 (1865). 

 Flusia buchJwlzi, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xli. p. 298 (1880). 

 Flusia agnata, Staud. Eoiii. Mem. vi. p. 547 (1892); id. Oat. Lep. pal. 



p. 238. 

 Flusia dinava, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 270 (1906). 

 Flusia cohcere7is, Schultz, Intern. Ent. Zeit. i. p. 32 (1907). 



Head and thorax rufous, the head and tegulse yellower, the 

 thoracic crest paler mfous above; pectus yellowish white; abdomen 

 yellowish white suffused with brown, the crests rufous at tips, the 



Fig. 122. — Fhytomeira chalcytes, (^ . 



lateral anal tufts of male blackish brown. Fore wing bright 

 rufous with some brown irroration and striae, the medial area below 

 submedian fold and before the postmedial line and the terminal 

 area mostly siiffused with gold ; a subbasal golden striga from 



